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UT Health San Antonio receives CPRIT funding
August 27, 2019
SAN ANTONIO (Aug. 27, 2019) ̶ UT Health San Antonio received more than $1 million from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas in its summer round of funding, announced Aug. 22. The largest award, $892,157, went to Yidong Chen, PhD, a professor of population health sciences in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School […]
KTXS12: UT Health San Antonio receives $500,000 to continue battle against childhood cancer (Aune & Ignatius labs)
August 24, 2019
UT Health San Antonio has half a million more reasons to continue the fight against childhood cancer. Two doctors with the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute received grants on Tuesday worth up to $500,000.
Zebrafish May Help Scientists Find New Cancer Treatments
August 22, 2019
St. Baldrick’s Foundation awards $306,000 for Ewing sarcoma studies
August 20, 2019
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation has awarded $306,000 to David Libich, PhD, of UT Health San Antonio to further his studies of the childhood cancer Ewing sarcoma. Dr. Libich, who has a background in structural biology, is an investigator with the university’s Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute. He is an expert in the use of a […]
Paws for Cure: Courageous Warriors: Cancer Patients’ Perspectives
August 18, 2019
Paws for a Cure Research Symposium Over 200 Pediatric oncologists, veterinary oncologists, translational research scientists join together to share leading-edge approaches to accelerate the development of new and better medicines for the treatment of cancer, particularly devastating shared childhood and canine cancers. Hosted by Merck Research Labs and Canines-N-Kids Foundation.
SHOCK: Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury Alters the Gastrointestinal Microbiome in a Time-Dependent Manner
August 1, 2019
Nicholson, Susannah E.∗; Watts, Lora T.†; Burmeister, David M.‡; Merrill, Daniel∗; Scroggins, Shannon∗; Zou, Yi§; Lai, Zhao§; Grandhi, Ramesh∗; Lewis, Aaron M.∗; Newton, Larry M.∗; Eastridge, Brian J.∗; Schwacha, Martin G.∗,‡ Abstract The microbiome is defined as the collective genomes of the microbes (composed of bacteria, bacteriophage, fungi, protozoa, and viruses) that colonize the human body, and […]
The mRNA Metabolism in Human Disease: The diverse roles of RNA-binding proteins in glioma development
July 25, 2019
Mitzli X. Velasco, Adam Kosti, Luiz O. F. Penalva, Greco Hernández Abstract Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression is fundamental for all forms of life, as it critically contributes to the composition and quantity of a cell’s proteome. These processes encompass splicing, polyadenylation, mRNA decay, mRNA editing, and modification and translation and are modulated by a variety of RNA-binding proteins […]